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 62 STAT.] 80TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CHS. 812, 813-JULY 2, 1948 quently allowed by the court for the subsurface, when added to any value previously allowed by the court for the surface, shall not exceed the court's determination of the value, if any, of the land, surface, and subsurface, valued as a whole. The parties may compromise or settle in whole or part claims for any of the surface or subsurface values involved, and any settlement or compromise shall be reduced to a separate judgment. The services rendered by the attorney or attorneys in obtaining any judgment shall constitute a separate employment and undertaking involving a single set of services and the court shall award separate compensation for the services rendered in obtaining each separate judgment. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to reduce or increase fees payable to counsel in accordance with their duly approved and executed contracts or to preclude their continued repre- sentation in any case until paid; nor, with respect to any judgment hereunder, shall this amendment impair or limit any claim, right, defense, or offset otherwise applicable." Approved July 2, 1948. [CHAPTER 813] AN ACT 1229 Attorneys' fees July 2, 1948 To authorize the Secretary of the Army to sell and convey to Okaloosa County, [H ..3735] State of Florida, all the right, title, and interest of the United States in and to a [Public Law 886] portion of Santa Rosa Island, Florida, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary loosa County, of the Army is authorized to convey, subject to the limitations and Conveyance. conditions hereinafter enumerated and such others as he may pre- scribe, to Okaloosa County, State of Florida, for recreational pur- poses, all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to all or any part of that portion of Santa Rosa Island, Florida, extending one mile east from Brooks Bridge on United States Highway 98 near the town of Fort Walton, Florida, except for a strip of land six hundred feet wide (three hundred feet east and three hundred feet west from center line of road leading to radar site "IDick"), extending from Highway 98 to the mean low water level of the Gulf of Mexico, and two miles west from said bridge, and to all or any part of that portion of said Santa Rosa Island which lies east of the new channel at East Pass (consisting of two small islands), said property being under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Army. Such con- Payment by ooun- veyance shall be made upon payment by said county of a sum which ty' shall be fifty per centum of the fair value of the property conveyed, based upon the highest and best use of the property at the time it is offered for sale regardless of its former character or use, as deter- mined by the Secretary, less such portion of the price originally paid by said county for said island, prior to its conveyance to the United States, as the Secretary shall determine to be fair and equitable. The deed of conveyance of said property by the Federal Government will contain the following limitations and restrictions: Limitations and re a. That said property shall be used only for public recreational srctio ns . purposes. b. That climb-proof, chain-link fences eight feet in height, with three strands of barbed-wire (three barbs) at the top, together with necessary gates, be constructed by and at the expense of Okaloosa County, its successors or assigns, one at the westerly limit of area con- veyed and a second surrounding the immediate area of radar site "Dick", the fence erected at the westerly limit to be maintained by Okaloosa County and the fence erected around radar site "Dick" to be maintained by the Department of the Army.

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